The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

Directed by

Stephen Hopkins

Genre

drama film, action film, horror film, adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 1,155 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1898 Kenya, a military engineer leads the construction of a railway bridge. His work is threatened by two man-eating lions that prey on his workers.

tensesuspensefulhistoricalgrittybleakslow-burnvisceralominous

What happens

The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898. The film received mixed reviews and grossed $75 million against a production budget of $55 million. It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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